Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Gentlemen, in 2000 I went around Atlantic Canada and asked lobster fishermen, in writing and in person, if something like a lobster marketing board would be something they would entertain. At that time, the vast majority of lobster fishermen and their families said absolutely no way; they wanted nothing to do with supply management and they liked the competitive industry they were in then.
I can't help but notice that in parts of Nova Scotia, in the media, fishermen are getting together to talk about the idea of lobster marketing boards, like a supply management system, similar to what we have in the dairy industry.
Of course, one of the challenges with supply management is that whereas we know in the dairy industry how many cows there are and how much they're producing and on what farms and everything else, in the lobster industry, as my colleague, Mr. Kamp said, we don't have an idea of what the biomass is or how many lobsters are out there. That may be a bit of a challenge.
Is supply management of the lobster industry or a lobster marketing board something you would be interested in looking at?